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COMING EVENTS
SEPT.
11-Tides: High 4.37 a. sad 7.28 p.m. Low 12.17 am, and 1853 pm.
Sunrise: 6.08 a.m.; Sunset: 6.31 p.m. H.K. Electric Co., Ltd. Interim Dividend payable.
Ladies Working Party (B.W.OF.. Gort, House, ទ E1-13 noon.
Indian RC. annual mtg. 5.30 pm. HKPA. Council Meeting, 3.30 p.m. H.E. the Acting Governor to Dine with Capt. R. E. Cassidy on board the US.S
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GENERAL
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1940. —PAGE 3
victor, Herbert); 4. La Gumpar- sita-Tango; 5. Na Pua-Hula; 6. Re member-Waltz (Berlin); 7. On the beach at Waikiki; & Twilight Blues.
8.30 Studio "Great Authors". No.
Goldsmith Talk by Father Ryan, S.J. 8.50 Songs by Elsie Suddaby (So- prano).
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Voluntee Nursing Detachment Stretcher Demonstration and Thomas Splint. St. John's Cathedral Hall (non-office workers. 3 p.m., office work- ers. 5.30 p.m.).
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metres (845. koh) ILÚ metres (9.32 mogaoyalse).
TALK
European Y.M.C.A.
Swimming
Championships.
12 Tides: High 5.53 a.m. and 8.08
Low 1.01 p
nord
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Spring Had Come ("Hiawatha" Coleridge-Taylor); Ave Maria ("Ca- vallerin Rusticana"-Mascagnil),
9.00 London Relay The News. 9.30 London Relay
ON "GREAT AUTHORS" BY FATHER RYAN, SJ.
Paradise Islanders 12.15 pm. Short Service of Inter Mɑment.” cession.
Sunrise: 6.09 am: Sunset: 6.30 p.m.
12.30 Lys Gauty and Jean Sablon Entries close for HK. Jockey Club's in a Light French Programma. « Seventh Extra Meeting, 12 noon.
European Championships.
Y.M.C.A.
or
En Quittant Une Swimming.
Vole Pigeon
You
Are Fox-Trot
"Maiters of
9.45 Half an hour of Dance Music. Fox-Trot Somewhere at Sea: Quickstep - Nursle! Nursiel - New Ville (Trenet); Mayfair Dance" Orchestra. Slow Fox- (Trenet - Misraki) Trot -- How Beautiful
'Black and His Orchestra. (from
Velvet'); HK Y's Men's Club Weekly Tin Charles Trenet
An 18t Century Drawing Meeting. 1 p.m.: Speaker Mr. Ed- J'Attends Un Navire (Deval) - Lys- ward Shim "Insects in the Ganty (Vocal) with Orchestra, Reve Room-Jay Wilbur & His Band. Runti- Secret Vaise: Parade D'Oiseau bas Antillans: International Rumba
Fox-Trots Courell Meeting, 2.30 Onestep- L'Accordeoniste Alexander-Lecuona Cuban Bays.
and His Orch. Vous Qu Pissez Sans Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight; Cheero Club: Bridge and Mahjong. Me Voir (Hess Misrak); Ces Petites Turkey
the Straw Freddie Victoria Chess Club, Gloucester, Ho Choses (Stracher)-Jean Sablon (Vo-Schnickelfritz Fisher and His Band. tel. 5 p.m.
ca) with Orchestra. Le Chaland Qui Quick Walts Chatterbox (flm "That's Kowloon Chess Club, Peninsula Ho- Passe (Badet and Bixo)-Ly's Gauty right You're wrong); Swing Step tel, 5.30 p.m.
HVocal)—with Orchestra.
You've Done Gomething To My Heart Cathedral
Women's Fellowship
from Lights Up')-Jack White and Working Party Cathedral Hall, 3.30
His Collegiana.
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Hear the Duke of Windsor take the outh of ruler of the Baliaraus. Bombardment of Libya by Royal Navy... Parashot troops in realistic manoeuvres... Dionne quintuplets on their 6th Birthday. ALSO:
THE STORY OF ALFRED NOBEL”—A Specialty
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FRI:"LUCKY CISCO KID" Stury Beth Hughes
RA.OB. Club: Extraordinary Gen eral Mecting, 8 p.m.
1.00 Local Time Signal and Wen- ther Report.
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1.63 Tchaikowsky: -- Aurora's Wed- ding-Ballet Music.
10.15
A Variety Programine with Clapham and Dwyer, Florence Des mond and Others
Descriptive Sketch-Another Day's
London. Philharmonic Orchestra. 1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press, Wen-Broadcasting (Clapham and Dwyer) ther Forecast and Announcements.
1.45 Mary Band Music, 13-Tides: High 6.55 am, and 837 pum. Low 12.14 a.m," and 1.41 pm.
Ship Ahoy March (arr. MacKenzie) Sunrise: 6.09 a.m.; Sunset: 6.29 p.m.-Intro: The Sea is England's Glory: Ladies' Working Party (B.W.OF.), Govt. House, 0 a.m.-13 noon
Cheero Club: Darts and Table Ten
dis.
A.R.P. Lectures for House-Boys on Peak, at Peak Club, 2.30 pm.
Europear Y.M.C.A Swimming Championships..
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14-Tides: High 7.47 am and 8.01 Ip.m. Low 1.09 am, and 2.15 pm:
Sunrise: 6.10 m.; Snuset: 628 pm. Claims against estate of Frank Malcolm Lane Crawford due,
Kowloon Cricket Club-Stag Supper and Smoking Concert, & p.m.
St. Teresa's
to be opened} by the Vicar apostolic of Hongkong. the Rt. Rev. H. `Valtorta, 4 p.m.
Clapham and Dwyer (with Erects). Impersonations A Hollywood Bridge Game Intro: Jimmy Durante, Zašu Pitts, Lupe Velez and Mae West Florence Desmond
Vocal
and Plano The Lads in Navy Blue Ship Aboy; Miracles Sametimes Happen (Noble Sons of the Sea; Ses Songs Medley and Murray): Cabin On The Hill-Top Williams) Massed (Alm Walking On Air-Turner Lay (Arr. Vaughan Bands of The Marines. Tidworth ton Tattoo. 1935-Massed Bands of the Southern Command
2.15 Close down.
6.00
tor Constance Getting a Mo
Scene from "Our Betters" by Somerset Maugham:
and Ronald Squire. Piano Charlie Kurz Piano Violin and Piano Recital Gypsy Tea Room: Old Mammy Mine:
No. R.7-Intro: Medley
In... B
Utle Yehudi Menuhin and Elleen Joyce.
Anything Goes; Haunting Me; Jump Menuetto Scherzando (Stavenha on the Wagon: When Day Is Done- gen); La Maja Y Ruisenor (Grao Charlle Kunz. Talking A British dos)-Elleen Joyce (Piano). Spanish, Mother's Big Flight (Streamline
(Granados-Kreisler): EUA. F. Herbert) Florence Desmond. garian Dance No. 11 in D. Minor Descriptive Sketch Clapham and (Brahms-Joachim) - Yehudi Menuhin Deyer on Photography Clapham and (Violin) with Plano.
Trois Danses Dwyer. Comedians Ye B.B.C. (In- Fantastiques (Shostakovich); Scherzo, producing Million Tears) Plant- OP. I
18. No. 2 (D'Albert)——Elleen Joyce
Dance
Entries close Swimming Champion-| (Piano). Sicleane Et Rigaudonan and Allen with Orchestra.
abips.
(Fancocur-Kreisler); Guitarre (Mosz-
HE. the Acting Governor to Dine kowski-Sarasate) Yehudi Menuhin with the Hon. the Colonial Secretary | (Violin) with Plano. fand Mrs. N. L. Smith, 8.13 pan,
-15-Tides: High 8.34 am. and 9.27 1pm Low 156 am, and 2.44 a.m.
Sunrise: 810 a.m.; Sunset: 657 pm. Mácao Jockey Club's September Race Meeting.
Claims against estate of John Har- ber Roberts due.
p.m.
6.30 Closing Local Stock Quota- tions.
6.32 Puccini's "La Tosca" Act II
11.00 Close down.
Call
SHORT WAVE
G.3.B.
Singers in order of appearance: G...G Apollo Granforte (Baritone), Giovanni Azzimont! (Bass), Nello Paini (Tenor). Carmen Melis (Soprano), Piero Palai (Tenor), with Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
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7.13 Offenbach-Galte Parisienne Transmission I-News Sum-
London Philharmonic Orchestra.
TM.CA: Discussion Group, a p.m. 16-Tides: High 9.14 m, and 9.49) Low 2.37 amm. and 3.15 p.m. Sunrise: £10 am; Sunset: 6.28 p.m.) Ballet Music. Ladies' Working Party (B.W.O.F.), Govt. House, 9 am-12 noon.
Meeting of All Cricket Clubs, Urban Council Chamber. 5.15 p.m.
China Underwriters, Ltd, call on shares payable.
17-Tides:" High 9.49 a.m. and 10.11 p.m. Low 3.18 am and 3.41 p.m.
Sunrise: 6.11 am; Sunset: 6.25 p.m. HK. Rotary Club Tiffin Meeting. I p.: Speaker-Major J. L. Willcocks on "What Can We Do With the Pri- sober."
Swimming Championship' Heate at V.R.C
Criminal Sessions Open, 10 am. 18-Tides: High 10.24 am and 10.27 p.m. Low 3.55 am, and 4.14 pan. Sunrise: 6.11 .m.; Sunset: 824 p. Ladies Working Party (B.W.OP.), Govt. House, 9 am-12 noon
Swimmla Championship Beats at V.R.C
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club, An- nual Meeting, Club House, Kellet Island, 8.45 p.m.
m. and
19-Tides: High 10.51 10.44 pm. Low 4.35 am, and 442. p.m.)
Sunrise: 6.11 am.; Sunset: 6.23 pm. HK, Y's Men's Club Tiffin Meeting. 1 p.m.
Swimming Championship Heats at V.R.C.
HK, Hockey Assn. Annual Meeting, St. Andrew's Hall, 6 p.m.
Entries close for South China A.A Swimming Championships, 7.30 p.m.
20-Tides: High. 1125 a.m. and 11.04 p.m. Low 5.14 a.m. and 5.06 pm. Sunrise; 6.11 a.m.; Sunset: 6.22 pm. Raub Australian Gold Mining Co., Ltd.. Second interim dividend payable to shareholders on registers in Bris- bane and Singapore.
and
Ladies' Working Party (B.W.OF.), Govt. House, 9 am-12 noon..
High 1155 am. 21-Tides: 11.27 p.m. Low 5.36 am, and 5.21 p. Sunrise: 611 m.; Sunset: 6.31-pm. XEFA League, First Round starts. HLR. Jockey Club's Seventh Extra Race Meeting at Happy Valley. 2 p.m. South China A.A. Bwimming Cham- plonships 2:30 pm
22-Tides: ·High 12.37
Low 6.42 a.m. and 542 pxIL
Sunrise: 6.12 at: Sunset: 6.20 pin, Y.M.C.A.: Discussion Group, § p.m. 23-Tides: High 12.02 a.m, and 140 p.m. Low 133 am, and 5.51 p.m.
Sunrise: 6.12 m.; Sunset: 6.19 p.m. Ladies' Working Party (B.W.O.F), Cost House, 9 a.m.-12 noon.
St. Andrew's Club annual mtg., 9 p.m.
MASS EDUCATION Junction with the enforcement of pm Low 8.58 am and 6.08 p.m..
SCHEME
the new halen system.
24 Tides: High 1247 p.m. and 2.17
Sunrise: 0.12 a.m.; Sunset: 6.18 p.m. HK. Rotary Club Tinn Meeting, 1 p.m.
Golf-Autumn Meeting and Tombatone" Competition.
'Ladies'
It is planned that 11,800-mass education schools will be estab lished in the unoccupied areas of
South China AA Swimming Cham- the province, An appropriation plonshlo Heats. 7.36 p.m.
25Tides: High 144 am. and 527 pm) Low 10.28 a.m. and 633 pan.
Bandise: 6,13 a.m.; Sunset: 8.17 p.m. Govt. House, 8am-12 noon.
Ladies' Working Party (B.W.O.F.),
IN KWANGTUNG of $2,295,000 has been made for
SHIUKWAN, Bept. 10 (Central) The Kwangtung Provincial Gov ernment is vigorously pushing mass education in the province in con-
this purpose,
Training of teachers for the mass education work is now pro- ceeding. Already 7,807 have been trained up, it is learned.
Colony Bwimming Championships, 6.15.p.m.
7.30 London Relay The News, 8.00 Local Time Signal Weather | Report and Announcements.
8.03 Studio-Concert By The Fara-
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1. Paradise Isle-Theme Song: 2 Hano Hano Hañolel: 3. Indian Sum-
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26-Tides: High 2.59 am and 632 COLONY HEALTH
pm Low 1134 am and 8.38 p.m.
Sunrise: 6.13 nm; Sunset: 6.16 p.m. Entries close for Hongkong Jockey Club's, Eighth Extra Race Meeting, 12 1000
HK. Y's Men's Club Tinn Meeting, 1 p.m.
Colony Swimming Championships,
0.15 p..
BULLETIN
The following is the Return of notifiable diseases notified as hay- ing occurred, in the Colony during the week ended at midnight on South China AA: Swimming Cham September 7:-Cholera, 77 "cases (34. deaths and one imported plonships, 7.15 p.m.
27~Tides: High 426 am and 657 case); Diphtheria, one case, En- p.m. Low 12.23 am, and 11.34 p.m. teric Fever. 30 cases (10 deaths Sunrise: 6.14 a.m.; Sunset: 6.15 pm and one imported case): Measles, RAO.C, Monthly Dinner--Speaker,
case; Cerebro-Spinal Fever, two cases (one death); Dysentery, Ladies Working Party (B.W.OF.. 47 cases (14 deaths); Tuberculosis, Govt. House, 9 am-12 noon
(216, deaths and one Imported Colony Swimming Championships.
case). 6:15 pm.
Mr, D. B Evans "Measurement of one Distant Sounds."
South China AA, Swimming Cham- plonships, 7.15 p.m.
28 Tides: High 5:42 am, and 7.27| p.m. Low 1.06 p.m.
"Sunrise: 6.14 am; Sunset: 6.14 p.m.
Birthday of Confucius. Colony Swimming Championships, 9.30 p.m.
p.m.
29-Tider: High 6.51 am. and 7.57 Low 1244 am. and 148 p.m. Sunrise: 6.14 ami; Sunset: 6.13 p.m. YMCA Discussion Group, 9 p.m. 30-Tides: · High 7,51 am.’and 8.32 p.m. Low 137 am and 223 p.m. -
DAILY RETURNS The following is the Return for the 24 hours ended at midnight on September 9:-Cholera, 26 cases; Enteric Fever, four cases; Dysen- tery, 16 cases; Tuberculosis, 45
cases.
Sunrise: 6.35 am.; Sunset: 6.12 p.m. Ladies' Working Party (B.W.OF.), Govt. House, i am.---12 noon.
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